Star of 1980s ‘Chinese enlightenment’ dies in the US at 91

Source: China – South China Morning PostLi Zehou, one of China’s most influential contemporary philosophers and a leading scholar of the “Chinese enlightenment”, died on Wednesday in the United States, his adoptive country for over 30 years. He was 91.A native of Hunan province, Li graduated from Peking University in 1954, and became a researcher and professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He moved to the United States in 1992 after being purged for criticising Beijing’s 1989 military crackdown.He set up home in the city…Read More

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